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Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 15:39:26 -0800
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
From: Ken Ingram <kingram@ipro.com>
Subject: Re: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping
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Your posts are coming in two's....

At 10:40 PM 1/9/97 +0100, J Wunsch wrote:
>As Ken Ingram wrote:
>
>> Where do I begin? Disklabel gets me:
>> 
>> #disklabel -r -w wd2 auto
>> disklabel: /dev/rwd2c: Undefined error: 0
>
>That should not happen. :)
>
>Try the following in preparation, to clean out old dirt first:
>
>	dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd2 count=100
>
>Also, do add the -B flag to the disklabel command, even if you're
>never going to boot off it.  It will prevent the kernel from pestering
>you with silly warnings later.
>
>-- 
>cheers, J"org
>
>joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
>Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
>
>

--Ken
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